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whole: a large schematic drawing for Dazzle camouflage, featuring a hand-drawn and hand-painted port-side view of a
battleship. A superstructure detail is located upper right. All major text is hand-lettered, with the colour designations applied with an
ink stamp.
image: a port-side view of the Royal Navy 'Royal Sovereign class' battleship, HMS Royal Sovereign. The scheme incorporates a centrally
positioned series of black, white and grey diagonal bands combined with sweeping irregular areas, coloured black, white and shades of grey
and blue.

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